The compelling insights found in Should We Ever Say, "I Am Saved"? summarize doctor Herbert E. Douglass’s study and personal discovery through the years of what it means to be assured of salvation. In these pages you will learn the difference between genuine and false assurance; how to have genuine assurance now; what Ellen White really said about assurance; how Grace relates to faith; what works, legalism, and perfection have to do with assurance, and much more.

If you long to be a happy child of God, delivered from doubt and filled with faith, this book is must-reading.

Herb Douglass, as a college teacher and administrator, has been focused on youth as well as their parents for more than fifty years and writes out of his experience as to what works and what doesn’t. His theological studies have focused on the God-man relationship in the plan of salvation, especially as unfolded in the Great Controversy Theme. Author of more than 13 books and numerous magazine articles, his wide range of interests have included last-day events, making the plan of salvation simple, and the role of Ellen G. White in the development of Seventh-day Adventist thought and organization. His latest book, Messenger of the Lord, is referred to as the definitive work on Ellen G. White’s life and thought.

His earned doctorate was conferred in 1964 at the Pacific School of religion after his A.B., from Atlantic Union College, 1947; M.A., and B.D., from Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, 1956, 1957. He is deeply indebted for the opportunity to have been a pastor in Illinois, teacher at Pacific Union College, head of the Bible Department, Dean of the College, and President of Atlantic Union College; Associate Editor, Adventist Review, Vice-president, Pacific Press^® Publishing Association; and President of Weimar Institute.

When they can squeeze in vacation weeks, Herb and Norma have spent seven years (one week each year) in a condo in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, two trips through the Panama Canal, plus eight cruises to Alaska, Mexico, and the Caribbean. On most of those vacations he kept writing books or editing them, just for fun!

Leisure time at home means landscape maintenance and the annual garden. His favorite authors, other than the Bible and anything Ellen White wrote, are C.S. Lewis, Philip Yancey (they exchange each other’s books since 1985), and Ken McFarland.